The independent non-governmental monitoring group UN Watch today called on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to order the removal of a curtain recently placed over an historic marble carving at the UN’s European headquarters in Geneva, and to “stop this dangerous kowtowing to Iran’s fundamentalist regime.”

“Will the UN, in deference to Iran’s nuclear negotiators, cover up the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, whose principles of religious freedom, political liberty, and equality also offend the Iranian regime?”